" Welcome to Microsoft DreamSpark Professional Developer and Designer tools for students at no charge " ( Microsoft ) . I think this is really a great thing that Microsoft did for the students of the present and future. It allows students to get enriched in a great platform and at the same...
" This release updates the Power Tools for the Database Edition to work with Visual Studio 2008 and provides several new features. The new features include two custom unit test conditions, a new Data Generation Wizard, and new MSBuild tasks to support running TSQL Static Code Analysis from the command...
"XML Tools team has released the XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 - a quick and reliable performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 allows developers to measure, evaluate, and target performance-related problems...
Scott Hanselman has created a nice Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery that allows you to quickly pick a color scheme for your Visual Studio 2005/2008 IDE. I personally like a black theme, what about you? View ( Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery )
Chris Bowen’s did a search last month for all posters available on Microsoft Downloads. This is what he found: .NET 3.5 Namespaces Poster The .NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster Visual Basic 2008 Keybinding Poster Printable wall poster containing list of useful keyboard shortcuts for...
Overview Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0 is the third publicly released version of the Device Emulator for ARM-based devices. This emulator will also release with Visual Studio 2008. Device Emulator 3.0 will replace the executables and DLLs from previous releases (1.0 and 2.0). The main addition with Device...
I've been waiting for this day for a very long time. Starting today you can view or debug the source code to the following .NET Framework libraries : .NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.CodeDom, System.Collections, System.ComponentModel, System.Diagnostics, System.Drawing, System...
Jet Brains has finally released ReSharper 3.1 . This is the first and much needed update to ReSharper since Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufactures. ReSharper 3.1 also contains new functionality like Solution Analysis (The ability to check an entire solution for errors/code improvements) and...
" This release contains project templates for using Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer 2008 to create new web sites and web applications with ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 features. The project templates contain specific references to assemblies in .NET Framework 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX...
"Two more of the hands-on labs from the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit have been published as MSDN virtual labs. This allows you to can get started with VS 2008 in a minute and start exploring the new features. The two new labs focus on the language enhancements with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9....